Sverre H. Huseby - CV

University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, 1989-1997. Master degree in Information Technology. Thesis: "Video on the World Wide Web".

University of Oslo, Department of Teacher Education and School Development, spring 1996. First half of the Teacher Education Program.

Full Time

Oslo from September 2006. Partner in this small, but well reputed consulting company, which was founded by some of my former colleagues in 2001.

Oslo from January 2001 to September 2006. My very own one-man company, selling courses and consulting services in software security. As of 2006-11-07, 55 courses have been given to 753 participants. I've also given 29 speeches for about 1250 listeners. Both courses and speaches have been given in English as well as in Norwegian.

Lysaker from November 1997 to January 2001. Java-programming, mostly server side Web (Java Servlets, JDBC, SQL, EJB) on GNU/Linux and MS Windows. Also installation and maintenance of Squid Cache, various Apache Web servers and a CVS Repository on GNU/Linux and Solaris.

Owner of "Process Security" since September 2000.

See Testimonial (in Norwegian).

(Center for Information Technology Services, Univ. of Oslo) Oslo from January to October 1997. Programming, particularly video conference software (H.261, TCP/IP, RTP, SIP, multicast). C and C++ on Irix and MS Windows.

Part Time / Free lance

Oslo since 1997. Misc. programming projects. PHP, Java Servlets, Apache Web Server, PostgreSQL database. Domain registration.

(Department of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo) Oslo 1991-1996. Seven semesters as a teacher assistant in courses in C and assembly programming (IN140), and in operating systems (IN142). Member of "is", a group of people maintaining programs on the Unix computers at the department. 180 hours of "web design" for a course in digital image compression (IN383). CGI-scripts, Perl.

(Department of Physiology, Univ. of Oslo) Oslo 1992-1995. Created a program for statistical analysis of research data. MS-DOS, Windows, Unix, C/C++. Approx. 700 hours.

(Bø Print-shop) Bø/Oslo autumn 1991. 120 hours developing a C++ program that converts maps to Postscript for printing.

(YMCA-YWCA) Sandefjord/Larvik periodically 1988-1991. Created a C program for handling people attending to camps.

Psychiatric nursing home. Larvik summer 1990. Day and night time assistant.

Larvik 1986-1989. Taught Pascal programming, did Pascal programming, aided students, and built computers.

Autumn 1987, spring 1989. Stand-in teacher at elementary schools.

Other

Oslo University College, Faculty of Engineering, December 1998. External examiner for "Internet and Multimedia", a 3. grade course.

Minor contributions to various Open Source projects. See separate web page.

The book "Innocent Code: A Security Wake-up Call for Web Programmers", December 2003. The book was translated to German in 2004.

Article February 1st 2001. "Internet Hygiene: Securing Your Windows PC". (Securityportal no longer exists.)

Article in no. 2, 2001. "Personlig Internet-hygiene".

Article in no. 49, 2002. "Client Side Trojans, eller: Hvordan stjele penger ved å sende en mail".

Article in no. 47, 2001. "Websikkerhet: Mer enn brannmur og kryptering".

Article in no. 4, 2001. "Uforutsett krysning gir ny kunstig livsform".

Article in no. 58, 2000. "Så enkelt er det å lage et sikkerhetshull".

I've been an invited speaker at the following conferences/seminars:

• The Norwegian Computer Society's Geilo seminar 2003
• ISF autumn conference 2003
• Abelia seminar on informasjon security 2003
• Genovus 2004 (Malta)
• Tekna: Risiko og sikkerhet i IKT-systemer 2005
• ROOTS 2005
• InfoSeCon 2005 (Dubrovnik)
• ROOTS 2006

Active, invited member of the Web Application Security Consortium since January 2005.

Associate member of the Free Software Foundation since January 2003.

Wife and kids, GNU/Linux (since autumn 1993), open standards, freedom to choose and freedom to think.

Microsoft-programs, proprietary (closed) standards, and trivial patents (like Amazon's "One-Click" and British Telecom's hyper links).